Program: 16th Conference on Applied Climatology (87th AMS Annual Meeting)

16th Conference on Applied Climatology

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Sunday, 14 January 2007

12:00 AM-12:00 AM: Sunday, 14 January 2007

Sun 14 Jan

7:30 AM-9:00 AM: Sunday, 14 January 2007

Short Course Registration

Location: East Registration (Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center)

9:00 AM-6:00 PM: Sunday, 14 January 2007

Conference Registration

Location: East Registration (Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center)

Monday, 15 January 2007

12:00 AM-12:00 AM: Monday, 15 January 2007

Mon 15 Jan

7:30 AM-6:00 PM: Monday, 15 January 2007

Registration continues through Thursday, 18 January

Location: East Registration (Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center)

9:00 AM-10:15 AM: Monday, 15 January 2007

Plenary Session for the Presidential Forum (Presidential Forum will then run parallel to other sessions throughout the day)

Location: Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center

10:15 AM-10:45 AM: Monday, 15 January 2007

Coffee Break

Location: Meeting Room Foyer (Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center)

10:45 AM-12:00 PM: Monday, 15 January 2007

Data Accessibility (includes Weather Station Histories)

Location: 206A (Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center)

Sponsor: 16th Conference on Applied Climatology

Chair: Andrea Bair, NOAA/NWS

Papers:

10:45 AM

1.1

Criteria for a good weather observation site from 1826–2006

Glen Conner, Western Kentucky Univ., Bowling Green, KY

Recorded presentation Poster PDF (120.8 kB)

11:00 AM

1.2

The first weather service modernization program, 1899–1909

Stephen R. Doty, Doty Data Services, Arden, NC

11:15 AM

1.3

The forms tell a tale-unique weather observing practices of the 19th century

Raymond T. Truesdell, National Interest Security Company, Asheville, NC; and J. Cooper, J. E. Freeman, and D. L. O'Connell

Recorded presentation Poster PDF (2.9 MB)

11:30 AM

1.4

The development of GeoProfiles for United States Historical Climatology Network stations in Kentucky

Stuart A. Foster, Western Kentucky University, Bowling Green, KY; and R. Mahmood and A. Littell

Recorded presentation

11:45 AM

1.5

Impacts of Data Format Variability on Environmental Visual Analysis Systems

Rich Domikis, The Boeing Company, Springfield, VA; and J. E. Douglas and L. Bisson

Recorded presentation Poster PDF (91.3 kB)

12:15 PM-1:30 PM: Monday, 15 January 2007

Lunch Break

1:30 PM-2:30 PM: Monday, 15 January 2007

Biometeorology and Aerobiology

Location: 206A (Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center)

Sponsor: 16th Conference on Applied Climatology

Chair: Karen E. Tomic, University of Alberta

Papers:

1:30 PM

2.1

Modeling the development and population density of West Nile vectors using climate data

Arthur T. DeGaetano, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY; and H. F. Gong, C. J. M. Koenraadt, and L. C. Harrington

Recorded presentation

1:45 PM

2.2

Does Climate Control Valley Fever Incidence in California?

Charles S. Zender, Univ. of California, Irvine, CA; and J. Talamantes and S. Behseta

http://www.ess.uci.edu/~zender

Recorded presentation Poster PDF (288.5 kB)

2:00 PM

2.3

Exploratory analysis of the potential health impacts of climatic variability and air pollution

Adel F. Hanna, Univ. of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC; and A. Xiu, K. Yeatts, P. Robinson, Z. Zhu, and J. Pinto

Poster PDF (289.4 kB)

2:15 PM

2.4

A mortality-based heat wave climatology for U.S. cities

Robert E. Davis, Univ. of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA; and P. C. Knappenberger, P. J. Michaels, and W. M. Novicoff

2:30 PM-4:00 PM: Monday, 15 January 2007

Poster Session 1

Applied Climate Poster Session #1

Location: Exhibit Hall C (Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center)

Sponsor: 16th Conference on Applied Climatology

Papers:

P1.1

Fog climatology along the Atlantic coast of Nova Scotia

Teresa Canavan, MSC, Dartmouth, NS, Canada; and W. Sanford

Poster PDF (214.6 kB)

P1.2

A pilot study of clear-islands in fog and near surface stratus clouds in central California

S. Jeffrey Underwood, University of Nevada, Reno, NV; and P. S. Cleary

P1.3

Visualization of seasonal-diurnal climatology of visibility in fog and precipitation at Canadian airports

Bjarne Hansen, EC, Dorval, QC, Canada; and I. Gultepe, P. King, G. Toth, and C. Mooney

P1.4

Regional atmospheric circulation and surface temperatures predicting cotton yields in the southeastern USA

Guillermo A. Baigorria, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL; and J. W. Hansen, N. Ward, J. W. Jones, and J. J. O'Brien

P1.5

Investigating the climatology of high ozone occurrences in southeast Texas

James Tobin, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX; and J. W. Nielsen-Gammon

P1.6

Effects of climate change on energy demand in Orlando, Florida

William L. Crosson, USRA, Huntsville, AL; and J. A. Klumpp, M. G. Estes Jr., and T. Bell

P1.7

Status report on NWS climate services and plans for the future

Diana Perfect, NOAA/NWS, Silver Spring, MD; and M. Timofeyeva, M. J. Brewer, and R. Livezey

P1.8

Integrating assessments of user needs with weather research: developing user-centric tools for reservoir management

Andrea J. Ray, NOAA/ESRL, Boulder, CO; and J. J. Barsugli and T. Hamill

Poster PDF (1.2 MB)

Joint Poster Session 1

Observation and Datasets-Part I (Joint between the 16th Conference on Applied Climatology and the 14th Symposium on Meteorological Observations and Instrumentation)

Location: Exhibit Hall C (Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center)

Sponsors: (Joint between the 16th Conference on Applied Climatology; and the 14th Symposium on Meteorological Observation and Instrumentation )

Papers:

JP1.1

Will the real Los Angeles stand up: Impacts of a weather station's relocation on climatic records (and record weather)

William C. Patzert, NASA/JPL, Pasadena, CA; and S. LaDochy, J. K. Willis, and T. Mardirosian

Poster PDF (171.7 kB)

JP1.2

Using sensitive variables to validate and complete global historical radiosonde metadata-Toward computing atmospheric climate trends adjusted for instrument changes

Steven R. Schroeder, Texas A&M Univ., College Station, TX

Poster PDF (173.9 kB)

JP1.3

The determination and description of surface weather types in central sudan using the principal components analysis and non- hierarchical clustering methods

Khadiga Abdelmola, Atrstotle Univ., Thessaloniki, Greece

JP1.4

Three-dimensional airflow analysis inside snow gauge shielding to determine snow gauge collection efficiencies

Scott D. Landolt, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and R. M. Rasmussen

Poster PDF (870.7 kB)

JP1.5

Potential climate applications from a global geostationary satellite data set

Kenneth R. Knapp, NOAA/NESDIS/NCDC, Asheville, NC

Poster PDF (371.0 kB)

JP1.6

The Mississippi Mesonet: Phase 2

Loren D. White, Jackson State University, Jackson, MS; and E. Matlack

http://jsumesonet.jsums.edu/index.htm

Poster PDF (291.6 kB)

JP1.7

The cause of the positive cloud to ground lightning anomaly over the Midwest Unites States: An exploratory survey from 2000 to 2005

Mariana Oliveira Felix, University of Northern Colorado, Greeley, CO; and G. R. Huffines and R. E. Orville

JP1.8

Identification of intra-month daily mean temperature modes using principal components analysis

Charles J. Fisk, Naval Base, Point Mugu, CA

Poster PDF (329.6 kB)

JP1.9

Assessment of discontinuities due to joining precipitation observations in Canada

Lucie A. Vincent, EC, Toronto, ON, Canada; and E. Mekis

Poster PDF (38.6 kB)

JP1.10

Improved Accuracy in Measuring Precipitation with the NERON Network in New England

Cynthia R. Morgan, Oklahoma Climatological Survey, Norman, OK; and G. R. Essenberg, K. C. Crawford, and C. A. Fiebrich

Poster PDF (219.2 kB)

JP1.11

Winter Test of All-Weather Precipitation Accumulation Gauge for ASOS 2005-2006

Christopher M. Greeney, SAIC, Sterling, VA; and J. V. Fiore Jr., J. M. Dover, and M. L. Salyards

Poster PDF (1.6 MB)

JP1.12

Storing and organizing ARM Program measurements documentation for data quality purposes

Kenneth E. Kehoe, CIMMS/Univ. of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and R. A. Peppler, K. L. Sonntag, and S. T. Moore

Poster PDF (425.1 kB)

JP1.13

ROVER: RENCI Outreach Vehicles for Education and Research

Jessica L. Proud, Renaissance Computing Institue, Chapel Hill, NC; and K. Galluppi

JP1.14

Performing quality control on wave measurements in extreme events

Formal Poster Viewing with Coffee Break

Location: Exhibit Hall C (Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center)

4:00 PM-5:30 PM: Monday, 15 January 2007

Joint Session 2

Communicating Climate Information to and through the Broadcast Community (Joint between the 35th Conference on Broadcast Meteorology and the 16th Conference on Applied Climatology)

Location: 205 (Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center)

Sponsors: (Joint between the 16th Conference on Applied Climatology; and the 35th Conference on Broadcast Meteorology )

Chair: Henry Reges, CoCoRaHS/Colorado State Univ.

Papers:

4:00 PM

J2.1

State climatologists serving the public through interactions with the media

David A. Robinson, Rutgers Univ., Piscataway, NJ

Recorded presentation

4:15 PM

J2.2

Drought and the media: a perspective from the Illinois state climatologist

James R. Angel, ISWS, Champaign, IL; and K. E. Kunkel

Recorded presentation

4:30 PM

J2.3

Misinterpretation of probabilistic seasonal climate outlooks by resource management professionals

Holly C. Hartmann, Univ. of Arizona, Tucson, AZ; and N. Haas

Recorded presentation

4:45 PM

J2.4

The Effect of Sensor Placement on Climatological Records

Sean Sublette, WSET Television, Lynchburg, VA

Recorded presentation Poster PDF (1.5 MB)

5:00 PM

J2.5

Climate Information for the broadcast community

Jay Lawrimore, NOAA/NESDIS/NCDC, Asheville, NC; and K. Gleason, D. H. Levinson, T. W. Owen, and D. M. Anderson

Recorded presentation Poster PDF (200.7 kB)

5:15 PM

J2.6

NWS New Climate Products and Services: Tools for Communicating Climate Information

Fiona Horsfall, NOAA/NWS, Silver Spring, MD; and D. Perfect and G. Romano

5:30 PM-5:30 PM: Monday, 15 January 2007

Sessions end for the day

Tuesday, 16 January 2007

12:00 AM-12:00 AM: Tuesday, 16 January 2007

Tue 16 Jan

8:30 AM-8:30 AM: Tuesday, 16 January 2007

Arakawa Symposium scheduled for the day

8:30 AM-4:30 PM: Tuesday, 16 January 2007

*Weather and Society * Integrated Studies (WAS*IS)*

Location: 206A (Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center)

Sponsor: 16th Conference on Applied Climatology

Cochairs: David A. Robinson, Rutgers Univ.; David Changnon, Northern Illinois University

Papers:

8:30 AM

3.1

Culture Change is Underway: WAS*IS (Weather and Society - Integrated Studies) Progress Report

Eve Gruntfest, University of Colorado, Colorado Springs, CO; and J. Demuth and J. K. Lazo

Recorded presentation

8:45 AM

3.2

Decision Support in NOAA's National Weather Service

Fiona Horsfall, NOAA/NWS, Silver Spring, MD; and J. Laver and P. Schultz

Recorded presentation Poster PDF (36.0 kB)

9:00 AM

3.3

Assessing how the U.S. public understands and uses weather forecast uncertainty information

Julie Demuth, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and R. E. Morss, J. K. Lazo, and A. E. Stewart

Recorded presentation Poster PDF (113.0 kB)

9:15 AM

3.4

An assessment of hazard warning verification from a social perspective

Steven Stewart, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ; and K. Barjenbruch, K. Pennesi, J. Deo, S. A. Erickson, P. L. Heinselman, A. J. Ray, R. Low, R. A. Wolf, and A. Coles

Recorded presentation

9:30 AM

3.5

Weather Salience in a Random Sample of United States Residents

Alan E. Stewart, Univ. of Georgia, Athens, GA; and J. Demuth, J. K. Lazo, and R. E. Morss

Recorded presentation

9:45 AM

3.5a

Formal Poster Viewing with Coffee Break

11:15 AM

3.6

The development of an insect migration forecast product for pest management: An example of interaction among atmospheric scientists and the product user

Michael Sandstrom, Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, Illinois; and D. Changnon

Recorded presentation

11:30 AM

3.7

Societal Aspects of Tornado Warnings

Somer A. Erickson, Univ. of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and H. Brooks

Recorded presentation

11:45 AM

3.8

Skill of the Aviation Weather Center's Collaborative Convective Forecast Product (CCFP)

Jonathan W. Slemmer, NOAA/NWS/NCEP/Aviation Weather Center, Kansas City, MO

Recorded presentation Poster PDF (279.0 kB)

12:00 PM

3.8a

Lunch Break

3.9

Patterns of Wind Damage from Hurricane Charley: A Case Study of Charlotte County

2:00 PM

3.10

Increasing Societal Resilience to Winter Weather

Tanja E. Fransen, NOAA/NWS, Glasgow, MT; and O. Wilhelmi

Recorded presentation Poster PDF (25.4 kB)

2:15 PM

3.11

Exploring spatial patterns of societal vulnerability to extreme heat

Olga Wilhelmi, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and C. K. Uejio and J. P. Samenow

Recorded presentation

2:30 PM

3.12

An Ecological Assessment of Coupled Climate Change and Human Activities on Wetlands in Zhalong Natural Reserve, China

Yankun Sun, Michigan State Univ., East Lansing, MI; and J. Qi, G. Lei, and H. Zhang

http://Yankun Sun_Zhalong Climate Change

Recorded presentation Poster PDF (457.8 kB)

2:45 PM

3.13

Driving under the influence of weather: Perceptions of flash floods and vehicle safety

Sheldon D. Drobot, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and E. Gruntfest, L. R. Barnes, C. Benight, D. M. Schultz, and J. Demuth

Recorded presentation Poster PDF (52.1 kB)

3:00 PM

3.14

Integrating end user needs into system design and operation: the Center for Collaborative Adaptive Sensing of the Atmosphere (CASA)

B. Philips, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA; and D. Pepyne, D. Westbrook, E. Bass, J. Brotzge, W. Diaz, K. A. Kloesel, J. Kurose, D. J. McLaughlin, H. Rodriguez, and M. Zink

Recorded presentation Poster PDF (348.6 kB)

3:15 PM

3.14a

Coffee Break in Exhibit Hall

3:45 PM

3.15

Vulnerability to disasters in Puerto Rico: Incorporating the social, physical and built environment to radar scanning srategies

Jenniffer M. Santos, Disaster Research Center, University of Delaware, Newark, DE; and J. Miller, A. González, M. G. Beaton, and X. Ortiz

Recorded presentation Poster PDF (2.0 MB)

4:00 PM

3.16

Towards an Understanding of Hazardous Weather-A WAS*IS Perspective on First Responders

Joshua J. Jans, Minnesota State University, Mankato, MN; and C. S. Keen

http://www.mnsu.edu/weather/ams2007.pdf

Recorded presentation Poster PDF (813.3 kB)

4:15 PM

3.17

The Underestimation of Hurricane Damage Potential

Alan E. Stewart, Univ. of Georgia, Athens, GA

Recorded presentation

4:30 PM

3.18

The social justice of weather: hurricane risk management in Latin America and the Caribbean

Eric M. Holthaus, Columbia University, New York, NY

Recorded presentation

9:45 AM-11:00 AM: Tuesday, 16 January 2007

Formal Poster Viewing with Coffee Break

Location: Exhibit Hall C (Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center)

11:00 AM-6:00 PM: Tuesday, 16 January 2007

Exhibits Open

Location: Exhibit Hall D (Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center)

12:00 PM-1:30 PM: Tuesday, 16 January 2007

Lunch Break

3:00 PM-3:30 PM: Tuesday, 16 January 2007

Coffee Break in Exhibit Hall

Location: Exhibit Hall D (Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center)

5:30 PM-5:00 PM: Tuesday, 16 January 2007

Sessions end for the day

Wednesday, 17 January 2007

12:00 AM-12:00 AM: Wednesday, 17 January 2007

Wed 17 Jan

8:30 AM-11:30 AM: Wednesday, 17 January 2007

Joint Session 1

Analyses and applications spanning broad time and space scales (Joint Session between the 19th Conference on Climate Variability and Change and the 16th Conference on Applied Climatology)

Location: 214C (Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center)

Sponsors: (Joint between the 19th Conference on Climate Variability and Change; and the 16th Conference on Applied Climatology )

Chair: Mathew Barlow, Univ. of Massachusetts

Papers:

8:30 AM

J1.1

The impact of the MJO-bridging the gap between weather and climate

Alexis Donald, Queensland Department of Primary Industries and Fisheries, Toowoomba, Qld, Australia; and S. M. Lennox, H. Meinke, and N. C. White

Recorded presentation Poster PDF (590.3 kB)

8:45 AM

J1.2

Linking weather and climate across time scales-A case study in Altay

Zhuoting Wu, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, AZ; and H. Zhang and B. Li

Poster PDF (147.9 kB)

9:00 AM

J1.3

Reliable statistical inference for weather and climate

Alexander Gluhovsky, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN; and E. Agee

Poster PDF (83.6 kB)

9:15 AM

J1.4

Mutual Information, Non-Gaussianity and Asymmetry of the joint distribution NAO-Winter Precipitation over the Euro-Atlantic Region

Carlos Alberto Pires, Univ. of Lisbon, Lisbon, Portugal; and R. P. Perdigão

Recorded presentation

J1.5

Intercomparison of the Stratospheric Performance of NCEP-NCAR and ERA-40 Reanalyses

9:45 AM

J1.6

Global sea surface temperatures and North American fire danger variability

Timothy J. Brown, DRI, Reno, Nevada; and B. L. Hall

10:00 AM

J1.6A

Coffee Break in Meeting Room Foyer

10:30 AM

J1.7

Evaluating IPCC rainfall and food aid tendencies for food insecure Africa

Chris C. Funk, USGS, Santa Barbara, CA; and J. Verdin and M. Brown

Recorded presentation

10:45 AM

J1.8

Desert dust storms in Northern China: a trajectory analysis for the last 25 years

Francesca Guarnieri, NRC/IBIMET-CNR, Florence, Italy; and M. Pasqui

11:00 AM

J1.9

An Observational and Modeling Study of the Winter-to-Spring Transition in East Asia-Onset of the South China Spring Rain

LinHo, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan; and X. Huang and N. C. Lau

11:15 AM

J1.10

A preliminary back-trajectory and air mass climatology for the Shenandoah Valley (Formerly J3.16 for Applied Climatology)

Robert E. Davis, Univ. of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA; and L. Sitka, D. M. Hondula, S. Gawtry, D. Knight, T. Lee, and J. Stenger

Poster PDF (1.1 MB)

8:30 AM-11:45 AM: Wednesday, 17 January 2007

Prediction (Use of Climate Statistics in Forecasting)

Location: 206A (Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center)

Sponsor: 16th Conference on Applied Climatology

Chair: Chris C. Funk, UCSB

Papers:

8:30 AM

4.1

The Madden-Julian Oscillation and subseasonal prediction

Mathew A. Barlow, University of Massachusetts, Lowell, MA; and D. Salstein

Recorded presentation

8:45 AM

4.2

The Application of Climate Data Sets in Calibrating Ensemble Guidance for the Prediction of Hazardous Weather

David R. Bright, NOAA/NWS/NCEP/SPC, Norman, OK; and M. S. Wandishin, S. J. Weiss, R. S. Schneider, and J. T. Schaefer

Recorded presentation Poster PDF (248.1 kB)

9:00 AM

4.3

Systematic errors effect on seasonal predictive skill

Mei Zhao, COLA, Calverton, MD; and T. M. DelSole, P. Dirmeyer, and B. Kirtman

9:15 AM

4.4

Statistical Climate Prediction for the southwestern U.S.: A 7-Year Assessment

Klaus E. Wolter, NOAA/ERL/CDC, Boulder, CO

9:30 AM

4.5

Relationships between Precipitation in Korea and Northwestern Pacific High during Spring

Sang-Un Han, Pukyong National Univ., Busan, South Korea; and H. R. Byun, D. W. Kim, and S. J. Lee

9:45 AM

4.6

Integrating observation and statistical forecasts over sub-Saharan Africa to support Famine Early Warning

Chris C. Funk, Univ. of California, Santa Barbara, CA; and J. Verdin and G. Husak

Recorded presentation Poster PDF (1.4 MB)

10:00 AM

4.6a

Coffee Break in Meeting Room Foyer

10:30 AM

4.7

Extreme Value Analysis of global reanalysis data

Eric Gilleland, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and M. Pocernich, B. G. Brown, and H. E. Brooks

10:45 AM

4.8

Extension of the CPC MJO Index to Forecast Mode

Qin Zhang, RS Information Systems, NOAA/NWS/NCEP/CPC, Camp Springs, MD; and J. Gottschalck and Y. Xue

http://www.cpc.ncep.noaa.gov/products/people/wd52qz/mjoindex/MJO_INDEX.html

Poster PDF (468.7 kB)

11:00 AM

4.9

Evaluation of WRF's ability to predict the coverage of air-mass thunderstorms and applications to short-term forecasting

Cody L. Phillips, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and J. Pinto and R. M. Rasmussen

Recorded presentation Poster PDF (389.6 kB)

11:15 AM

4.10

Consolidation of Multi Method Forecasts of Pacific SST

Malaquias Pena, SAIC and EMC/NCEP/NOAA, Camp Springs, MD; and H. M. Van den Dool, D. Unger, and P. Peng

11:30 AM

4.11

A climatological study of nighttime rapidly developing low cloud ceilings in a stable environment

William H. Bauman III, ENSCO, Inc., Cocoa Beach, FL; and J. H. Barrett, III, J. L. Case, M. M. Wheeler, and G. W. Baggett

Recorded presentation Poster PDF (800.4 kB)

11:00 AM-6:45 PM: Wednesday, 17 January 2007

Exhibits Open

Location: Exhibit Hall D (Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center)

12:00 PM-1:30 PM: Wednesday, 17 January 2007

Lunch Break (Cash & Carry available in the Exhibit Hall)

Location: Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center

1:30 PM-5:00 PM: Wednesday, 17 January 2007

Precipitation and Drought

Location: 206A (Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center)

Sponsor: 16th Conference on Applied Climatology

Cochairs: Mathew A. Barlow, University of Massachusetts - Lowell; Oliver Frauenfeld, University of Colorado

Papers:

1:30 PM

5.1

Precipitation in the southeast United States during the twentieth century

Peter J. Robinson, Univ. of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC; and R. Redding

1:45 PM

5.2

Eastern U.S. snowstorm characteristics

David Changnon, Northern Illinois Univ., DeKalb, IL; and S. Changnon

2:00 PM

5.3

The Community Collaborative Rain, Hail and Snow Network (CoCoRaHS): Volunteers Monitoring Precipitation across the Nation-the Next Step

Henry Reges, CoCoRaHS/Colorado State Univ., Fort Collins, CO; and N. J. Doesken and J. Turner

Recorded presentation Poster PDF (148.0 kB)

5.4

Citizen-based Drought Impacts Reporting in Arizona

2:30 PM

5.5

Issues of drought within a state climate office

David A. Robinson, Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ

Recorded presentation

2:45 PM

5.5a

Formal Poster Viewing with Coffee Break

4:15 PM

5.6

Relationships between tropical cyclones and heavy precipitation in the Carolinas

Charles E. Konrad, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC; and L. B. Perry

Recorded presentation

4:30 PM

5.7

An analysis of the Northern Gulf of Mexico sea breeze and associated thunderstorms

Christopher M. Hill, Geosystems Research Institute, Stennis Space Center, MS; and P. J. Fitzpatrick, Y. Lau, J. Corbin, S. Bhate, and P. G. Dixon

Recorded presentation

5.8

Arizona's innovations in drought monitoring and knowledge exchange

5:00 PM

5.9

The relationship between drought and wildfire in the US

Beth L. Hall, DRI, Reno, NV; and T. J. Brown

Recorded presentation

5:15 PM

5.10

MesoWest: One Approach to Integrate Surface Mesonets (Formerly Paper J3.23)

John D. Horel, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT

Recorded presentation

2:30 PM-4:00 PM: Wednesday, 17 January 2007

Poster Session 2

Applied Climate Poster Session #2

Location: Exhibit Hall C (Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center)

Sponsor: 16th Conference on Applied Climatology

Papers:

P2.1

Using flow regime lightning and sounding climatologies to initialize gridded lightning threat forecasts for east central Florida

Winifred C. Lambert, ENSCO, Inc., Cocoa Beach, FL; and D. A. Short, M. Volkmer, D. Sharp, and S. M. Spratt

http://science.ksc.nasa.gov/amu/

Poster PDF (1.4 MB)

P2.2

High-resolution simulation of the east-Asian summer monsoon using the regional spectral model

Jung-Eun Kim, Yonsei Univ., Seoul, South Korea; and S. Hong

P2.3

Forecast Performance of the New Local Three Month Temperature Outlook

Marina Timofeyeva, NOAA/NWS, Silver Spring, MD; and A. Bair, A. Hollingshead, R. E. Livezey, D. Unger, and H. C. Hartmann

P2.4

Developing the Local 3 Month Precipitation Outlook

Jenna C. Meyers, NOAA/NWS, Silver Spring, MD; and M. M. Timofeyeva, D. Unger, and A. C. Comrie

P2.5

Identification of cedar pollen source forests to impact on Tokyo urban area

Motoo Suzuki, Japan Meteorological Business Support Center, Tokyo, Japan; and M. Tonouchi and K. Murayama

Poster PDF (225.2 kB)

P2.6

Analysis of historical ARM measurements to detect trends and assess typical behavior

Sean T. Moore, Mission Research & Technical Services, Santa Barbara, CA; and R. A. Peppler, K. E. Kehoe, and K. L. Sonntag

Poster PDF (178.8 kB)

P2.7

A large-scale qualitative investigation of emergency managers' strategies for communicating weather information and warnings to the public

H. Dan O'Hair, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK

Joint Poster Session 2

Observation and Datasets-Part II (Joint between the 16th Conference on Applied Climatology and the 14th Symposium on Meteorological Observations and Instrumentation)

Location: Exhibit Hall C (Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center)

Sponsors: (Joint between the 14th Symposium on Meteorological Observation and Instrumentation; and the 16th Conference on Applied Climatology )

Papers:

JP2.1

Operational Radiosondes: Summary of Temperature Errors

F. J. Schmidlin, NASA/GSFC, Wallops Island, VA; and E. T. Northam

JP2.2

Observations of three-body scattering signatures with a polarimetric and conventional WSR-88D radar

Darren R. Clabo, CIMMS/Univ. of Oklahoma/NOAA, Norman, OK; and D. Zrnic

JP2.3

Noise dependencies for Geonor vibrating wire precipitation gauge

Alisa Holley, NOAA/NESDIS/NCDC, Asheville, NC; and S. Gros and M. E. Hall

JP2.4

Mixing Height in Unstable Conditions: Measurements and Parameterizations

S. A. Hsu, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA; and B. W. Blanchard

Poster PDF (175.8 kB)

JP2.5

MADIS support for UrbaNet

Patricia A. Miller, NOAA/ESRL/GSD, Boulder, CO; and M. F. Barth, L. Benjamin, R. S. Artz, and W. R. Pendergrass

http://madis.noaa.gov

Poster PDF (370.2 kB)

JP2.6

Light rain retrievals using CloudSat 94-GHz radar data-Preliminary results

Cristian Mitrescu, NRL, Monterey, CA; and J. M. Haynes, T. S. L'Ecuyer, S. D. Miller, and F. J. Turk

Poster PDF (2.8 MB)

JP2.7

Numerical simulations of the electrification and microphysics of the 22nd February 1993 TOGA COARE tropical squall line case

Alexandre Fierro, Univ. of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and L. M. Leslie, E. R. Mansell, and J. Straka

JP2.8

Improved accuracy in inferring the fine scale properties of rain rate from rain gauge time series

Paul D. Baxter, Univ. of Leeds, Leeds, United Kingdom; and K. S. Paulson

http://www.maths.leeds.ac.uk/~pdbaxt

Poster PDF (397.3 kB)

JP2.9

Evaluation of wind algorithms for reporting wind direction for use in air traffic control towers

Thomas A. Seliga, Volpe National Transportation Systems Center, Cambridge, MA; and D. A. Hazen

Poster PDF (530.5 kB)

JP2.10

Development of new wind profiler radar

Katsuyuki Imai, Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd., Osaka, Japan

JP2.11

Cloud photogrammetric studies in T-REX

Vanda Grubisic, DRI, Reno, NV; and B. Grubisic

JP2.12

Characterizing Middle to High Latitude Precipitation Over Land and Ocean: A Multisensor Approach

Benjamin T. Johnson, Univ. of Maryland/JCET and Univ. of Wisconsin, Greenbelt, MD; and G. W. Petty, G. Skofronick-Jackson, and J. Wang

JP2.13

Characterization of Anomalies Affecting Electric Field Mill Performance in Local Atmospheric Inversions—A Joint Study

JP2.14

Advanced Microwave Precipitation Radiometer (AMPR) signature of an inland flooding case in the Dominican Republic from Hurricane Georges (1998)

Courtney Denise Radley, NASA/MSFC, Huntsville, AL

JP2.15

A 23-year record of satellite-derived polar winds and its importance for climate reanalysis (Formerly J3.11)

Richard Dworak, CIMSS/Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, WI; and J. Key, D. Santek, and C. Velden

Joint Poster Session 3

Diurnal (Joint between the 21st Conference on Hydrology, the 16th Conference on Applied Climatology, and the 19th Conference on Climate Variability and Change)

Location: Exhibit Hall C (Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center)

Sponsors: (Joint between the 19th Conference on Climate Variability and Change; the 16th Conference on Applied Climatology; and the 21st Conference on Hydrology )

Papers:

JP3.1

Detection of Migrating Tides in the Tropical Middle Atmosphere using the CHAMP Radio Occultation Data

Zhen Zeng, UCAR, Boulder, CO; and W. J. Randel, S. Sokolovskiy, C. Deser, Y. H. Kuo, M. E. Hagan, and J. Du

JP3.2

Poster JP3.2 has been moved. New Paper number is 5A.6A

JP3.3

Early morning rainfall over the Strait of Malacca

Mikiko Fujita, Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology, Yokosuka, Japan; and F. Kimura, P. Wu, and M. Yoshizaki

Poster PDF (969.6 kB)

JP3.4

Diurnal variation of optically thin water cloud

Toshiro Inoue, The University of Tokyo, Kashiwa, Chiba, Japan; and K. Kawamoto

JP3.5

Interannual variability of diurnal warming of the sea surface temperature

Carol Anne Clayson, Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida

Formal Poster Viewing with Coffee Break

Location: Exhibit Hall C (Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center)

5:30 PM-5:30 PM: Wednesday, 17 January 2007

Sessions end for the day

5:30 PM-6:45 PM: Wednesday, 17 January 2007

Reception in Exhibit Hall (Cash Bar)

Location: Exhibit Hall D (Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center)

7:00 PM-9:30 PM: Wednesday, 17 January 2007

AMS Annual Awards Banquet

Location: Ballroom C123 (Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center)

Thursday, 18 January 2007

12:00 AM-12:00 AM: Thursday, 18 January 2007

Thur 18 Jan

8:30 AM-12:00 PM: Thursday, 18 January 2007

Joint Session 5

intersection between climate change policy and economics (Joint between the 2nd Symposium on Policy and Socio-economic Research, 16th Conference on Applied Climatology, and the 19th Conference on Climate Variability and Change)

Location: 214C (Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center)

Sponsors: (Joint between the 19th Conference on Climate Variability and Change; the Second Symposium on Policy and Socio-economic Research; and the 16th Conference on Applied Climatology )

Cochairs: Mathew Barlow, Univ. of Massachusetts; Anthony Socci, AMS Policy Program

Papers:

8:30 AM

J5.1

Using Weather Variability to Assess Socioeconomic Impacts of Climate:

Roberta Balstad, Columbia University, Bethesda, MD

Recorded presentation

8:45 AM

J5.2

The Role of Boundary Organizations in the Dissemination of Climate Information to Support Agricultural Production in Argentina

Alejandra Celis, CENTRO Estudios Sociales y Ambientales, Buenos Aires, Argentina; and M. G. Caputo and G. Podesta

9:00 AM

J5.3

A Climate Services Division-A Second Look

Mark A. Shafer, Oklahoma Climatological Survey, Norman, OK

Recorded presentation Poster PDF (160.1 kB)

9:15 AM

J5.4

Integration of climate change/variability science into transportation policy and decision making

Eric Lindquist, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX

9:30 AM

J5.5

Individual Decision-Making: Where Climate and Policy Meet

Guillermo Podesta, Univ. of Miami/RSMAS, Miami, FL; and E. U. Weber, F. Bert, D. Letson, C. A. Laciana, M. Re, and A. N. Menendez

9:45 AM

J5.5A

Formal Poster Viewing with Coffee Break

11:00 AM

J5.6

Critical challenges in incorporating climate into management of the Colorado River

Andrea J. Ray, NOAA/CIRES/CDC, Boulder, CO; and D. Kenney

Recorded presentation

11:15 AM

J5.7

Atmospheric science policy on Capitol Hill; perspectives from the AMS-UCAR Congressional Science Fellow

James Bradbury, AMS/UCAR, Washington, DC

11:30 AM

J5.8

Next steps for the AMS symposia on policy and socio-economic research

William Hooke, AMS Policy Program, Washington, DC

12:00 PM

J5.9

Normalized U.S. Hurricane Damages: Why Are We Seeing Catastrophic Losses in Recent Years?

Christopher Landsea, NOAA/NWS/NCEP/TPC, Miami, FL

Recorded presentation

8:30 AM-5:30 PM: Thursday, 18 January 2007

Joint Session 3

Observations and Data Sets (Joint between 14th Symposium on Meteorological Observations and Instrumentation and the 16th Conference on Applied Climatology)

Location: 206A (Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center)

Sponsors: (Joint between the 16th Conference on Applied Climatology; and the 14th Symposium on Meteorological Observation and Instrumentation )

Cochairs: Christopher Daly, Oregon State Univ.; C. Bruce Baker, NOAA/NESDIS/NCDC

Papers:

8:30 AM

J3.1

An analysis of the Oklahoma City urban heat island

Jeffrey B. Basara, Oklahoma Climatological Survey, Norman, OK; and P. K. Hall, D. R. Cheresnick, and A. J. Schroeder

Recorded presentation Poster PDF (639.2 kB)

8:45 AM

J3.2

Multi-Decadal Scale Temperature Cycles-Trends, Causes and Modifiers

Joseph S. D'Aleo, Hudson Seven Ltd., Hudson, NH

Recorded presentation

9:00 AM

J3.3

Impact of Automated Surface Observing Systems (ASOS) on the long-term temperature record: climatological significance

Patrick Taylor, LRC, Hampton, VA; and C. Kauffman

Recorded presentation

9:15 AM

J3.4

Design temperatures for heating and cooling applications in northern Colorado-an update

Wendy A. Ryan, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO; and N. Doesken and D. Swartz

Recorded presentation Poster PDF (143.6 kB)

9:30 AM

J3.5

Shifts in the U. S. seasonal daily temperature range (DTR) peaks and dips in the 20th century

Rezaul Mahmood, Western Kentucky University, Bowling Green, KY; and N. Lawalin and S. A. Foster

Recorded presentation

9:45 AM

Formal Poster Viewing with Coffee Break

11:00 AM

J3.6

Exploring spatial and temporal variability of DTR among USHCN stations in the Ohio River Valley

Stuart A. Foster, Western Kentucky University, Bowling Green, KY; and R. Mahmood

Recorded presentation

11:15 AM

J3.7

Observer Bias in Daily Precipitation Measurements at United States Cooperative Network Stations

Christopher Daly, Oregon State Univ., Corvallis, OR; and W. Gibson, G. H. Taylor, M. Doggett, and J. Smith

http://mistral.oce.orst.edu/bias/

Recorded presentation Poster PDF (1.5 MB)

11:30 AM

J3.8

A brief evaluation of precipitation from the North American Regional Reanalysis

Melissa S. Bukovsky, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and D. J. Karoly

Recorded presentation

11:45 AM

J3.9

Orographic Enhancements in Precipitation: Construction of a Global Monthly Precipitation Climatology from Gauge Observations and Satellite Estimates

Mingyue Chen, RS Information Systems, Inc., Camp Springs, MD; and P. Xie, J. Janowiak, and V. Kousky

Poster PDF (287.9 kB)

11:59 AM

J3.10

Status and outlook for global combined precipitation estimates

George J. Huffman, NASA/GSFC and SSAI, Greenbelt, MD; and R. F. Adler, D. T. Bolvin, and E. J. Nelkin

Recorded presentation

12:14 PM

J3.11 moved. New paper number JP2.15

12:15 PM

Lunch Break (Cash &Carry available in the Exhibit Hall)

1:30 PM

J3.12

A synoptic climatology of blowing dust events in El Paso, Texas from 1932-2005

David J. Novlan, NOAA/NWSFO, Santa Teresa, NM; and M. P. Hardiman and T. E. Gill

Recorded presentation Poster PDF (2.3 MB)

1:45 PM

J3.13

An updated warm-season convective wind climatology for the Florida space coast

Kristin A. Cummings, University of Maryland, College Park, MD; and E. J. Dupont, A. J. Loconto, J. P. Koermer, and W. P. Roeder

Recorded presentation Poster PDF (1.1 MB)

2:00 PM

J3.14

Maximum Wind Gust Return Periods for Oklahoma Using the Oklahoma Mesonet

Andrew J. Reader, Oklahoma Climatological Survey, Norman, OK

Recorded presentation Poster PDF (330.7 kB)

2:15 PM

J3.15

Climatology of westerly wind events in the lee of the Sierra Nevada

Vanda Grubisic, DRI, Reno, NV; and M. Xiao

2:30 PM

Coffee Break in Exhibit Hall and Raffle

3:14 PM

J3.16 moved. New paper number J1.10

3:15 PM

J3.17

A climatology of North American fire danger from the North American Regional Reanalysis dataset

Timothy J. Brown, DRI, Reno, Nevada; and W. M. Jolly and B. L. Hall

3:30 PM

J3.18

Assessing Reference Evapotranspiration Observations in North Carolina

Fan Chen, Univ. of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC; and P. J. Robinson

3:45 PM

J3.19

Progress in NOAA Data and Observation Services

Robert J. Leffler, NOAA/NWS, Silver Spring, MD; and M. J. Brewer, R. Livezey, and T. W. Owen

Recorded presentation Poster PDF (35.6 kB)

4:00 PM

J3.20

A new paradigm in near real-time cooperative data ingest at NOAA's National Climatic Data Center

Karsten Shein, NOAA/NESDIS/NCDC, Asheville, NC; and T. W. Owen

Poster PDF (94.7 kB)

4:15 PM

J3.21

Statewide Monitoring of the Mesoscale Environment: A Technical Update

Kenneth C. Crawford, Oklahoma Climatological Survey, Norman, OK; and R. A. McPherson, C. A. Fiebrich, and R. L. Elliott

Recorded presentation Poster PDF (2.8 MB)

4:30 PM

J3.22

Kentucky Mesonet: Instrumentation and an update

Rezaul Mahmood, Western Kentucky Univ., Bowling Green, KY; and S. A. Foster, C. B. Baker, and K. C. Crawford

Recorded presentation

4:45 PM

J3.23 moved. New paper number 5.10 in 16 Applied Climatology

4:46 PM

J3.24

Satellite sounder-based atmospheric parameter climatologies: tools for monitoring/assessing short and long-term climate variabilities and trends

Gyula I. Molnar, JCET/Univ. of Maryland, Greenbelt, MD; and J. Susskind

Recorded presentation

11:00 AM-4:00 PM: Thursday, 18 January 2007

Exhibits Open

Location: Exhibit Hall D (Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center)

3:00 PM-3:00 PM: Thursday, 18 January 2007

Registration Desk Closes

4:00 PM-4:00 PM: Thursday, 18 January 2007

Exhibits Close

5:30 PM-5:30 PM: Thursday, 18 January 2007

Conference Ends

6:00 PM-9:00 PM: Thursday, 18 January 2007

Rasmusson Symposium Banquet

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